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East Side Gallery

Date:
Apr 17 1990

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, the cement segments that remain have stood as something more symbolic than just a wall. With installations in every continent, except for Antarctica, the East Side Gallery is the…

Die-In at Chicago City Hall for #NoCopAcademy

Practitioner:
The #NoCopAcademy Campaign

Date:
Apr 17 1990

A group of Chicago youth staged a “die-in’ at City Hall to demand that the city defund police and fund marginalized communities instead. The youth, all members of #NoCopAcademy, also announced that the organization is suing Mayor Rahm Emanuel for…

Barristers vote to walk out in protest at government cuts

Practitioner:
Criminal Bar Association (CBA)

Date:
Apr 17 1990

Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted to stage mass walkouts and refuse new publicly funded cases in protest against sustained government cuts to the justice system. In a poll organised by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), 90% of…

Thousands of Ghanaians protest controversial military deal with U.S.

Practitioner:
public

Date:
Apr 17 1990

Thousands of people protested in Ghana’s capital Accra on Wednesday against the expansion of its defence cooperation with the United States, in a rare public display of opposition to the growing foreign military presence in West Africa. Demonstrators blowing vuvuzelas…

Artists in Seven South American Cities Reflect on Past Dictatorships

Practitioner:
various groups

Date:
Apr 17 1990

*image* Gabriela Golder, “Letters” (photo by Federico Lo Bianco, courtesy Parque de la Memoria) BUENOS AIRES — Dictatorships and armed conflicts have been all too familiar in South America’s recent histories. To take stock of these experiences, in 2016 the…

HANGING KLANSMEN ART INSTALLATION STUNS RICHMOND COMMUNITY

Practitioner:
Indecline

Date:
Apr 17 1990

A Richmond, VA.-based activist group called Indecline has recently installed a street art resistance installation of several hung clown figures dressed like the KKK from a tree in Richmond’s Bryan Park. The same group behind the naked Donald Trump statues…

The story behind the strange 8th Ave. subway statues and the cartoons that inspired them

Practitioner:
Tom Otterness

Date:
Apr 17 1990

At the Eighth Avenue subway station, sewer alligators are not an urban legend. Anyone who’s been through the 14th St./Eighth Ave. station has probably seen the bronze gator sculpture — and probably wondered what it means and why it’s there.…

Reporter’s viral eye roll causes trouble with Chinese censors

Practitioner:
Liang Xiangyi

Date:
Apr 17 1990

By Steven Jiang, CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/asia/china-viral-eye-roll-intl/index.html (CNN)It was the eye roll that resonated with millions — and broke the internet in China. On the sidelines of the country’s annual parliament session, a Chinese journalist on Tuesday morning showed her contempt for…

Fashion As Political Activism

Practitioner:
NYFW

Date:
Apr 17 1990

After eight days of fall/winter New York Fashion Week, the most prominent trend—pervading both the runways and streets—has been social and political activism. To outsiders, New York Fashion Week may seem trivial in a time of more pressing news, but…

Tsinghua students use Women’s Day to joke about ending presidential term limits

Practitioner:
students from Tsinghua University

Date:
Apr 17 1990

Students at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University are celebrating International Women’s Day with banners making light of a proposed constitutional amendment to scrap term limits for the country’s president. One banner joked that a boyfriend’s term should also have no limits,…